Wednesday marks 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday

Wednesday marks the four-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the famous English playwright William Shakespeare.

Apart from London, where actors are performing one of aShakespeare's plays at the Globe Theater, other performances are also taking place in other countries. A theater company in Nigeria is performing an African reboot of The Winter's Tale, which is a lesser known tragicomedy by Shakespeare. The Globe theater production company is launching their most determined tour yet, which is a two-year world tour to perform the better known tragedy, Hamlet.